What was previously the Launch Control Center is now a pair of private suites that provide 2,300-square-feet of additional living space and include a contemporary kitchen, dining room, entertainment room and marble-lined bathrooms complete with a Jacuzzi. Touches on a keypad reveal a 125-foot stairwell that leads down to two converted floors made of three-inch concrete and steel mesh. On the surface, the Silo Home appears to be just another mountain getaway however, below the hardwood floors of the 1,800-square-foot main lodge, the only visible part of the property, is the radical assimilation of modern style into raw industrial design that offers an unrivaled level of security and solitude. The duo spent the better part of 20 years creating an unparalleled 3,900-square-foot subterranean luxury estate with Cold War flair that can now be had for the reasonable price tag of $750,000. Set on more than 19 forested acres within Adirondack State Park, the Silo Home is the architectural brainchild of two cousins who set about converting the abandoned 1950’s nuclear launch pad, previously built to house an Atlas-F intercontinental ballistic missile, in 1991. Moore said, he is going to do exactly what he is doing now, as he climbs up the stairs and out of the bunker: Head eagerly toward the light.The ‘Silo Home,’ a former nuclear missile silo reconstituted as a private mountain retreat, has hit the Saranac, New York real estate market. When the apocalypse he has been hearing so much about arrives, Mr. Nuclear Missile Silo-Turned-Luxury Home Listed For 750k Home News Unique Homes Unique Homes Nuclear Missile Silo-Turned-Luxury Home By Neal Leitereg The ‘Silo Home,’ a former nuclear. And being stuck underground in the dark ranked as his worst nightmare. But he confessed that he did not share the fascination of all the people who have called him in recent weeks. Sure, it might be his job to sing the virtues of the site.
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“You don’t see one crack anywhere,” he said. The infrastructure of the silo was still as sturdy as it was a half-century ago.
The floors are covered in debris, and the walls are tagged with Cold War-era hieroglyphics declaring young love, warning of “nuclear assault” and offering proof that, yes, Frank has been here. Anything of value that could be stripped and carried out is gone. There is still plenty of work left to be done: A fuel container tipped over at some point, filling the silo with overpowering fumes. Moore’s phone ringing with inquiries from across the country: a missile silo, decommissioned decades ago. There, visitors who do not fear enclosed spaces will find a marvel of military architecture that has had Mr. The 25-acre parcel, a 20-mile drive from the city’s downtown, has a worn trailer where the former owner lived and then that green door, which opens on a stairwell heading deep underground. They’ve priced the underground lair outside Abilene at 380K. And so, two years later, the seller of an abandoned Atlas F missile silo in Kansas is hoping for a similar outcome. But someone with ambition, vision and 850,000 could transform this Cold War-era missile silo into their dream home. And on a recent morning, he pulled off the highway onto a gravel path leading straight to his latest example. The Titan II silo was listed on the open market at 395K, and sold quickly every mushroom cloud has a silver lining, after all.
But for some reason, he said, when an odd listing comes around, it tends to fall to him. Jim Moore, a real estate agent here, sells mostly ranch houses in tidy neighborhoods or stretches of undeveloped land in a place where that is abundant. museum and the McDonald’s in the shape of a flying saucer gives way to a lonely highway coursing through an ocean of scrubby terrain, the green door pops up like a periscope. Past the city limits, where the main street with the U.F.O.